On Thu, May 13, 2010 at 2:36 AM, Matt Wilkie <[email protected]> wrote: >> Cool, so i take that as confirmation we can use it for OSM.
Please don't presume that. Please confirm it. > Yes, the parks and protected area data is free and libre, as is all > the gis data from Environment Yukon found on the website. (Please note > that the Wildlife Key Areas does have it's own license agreement.) "Free and libre" mean different things to different people, and OSM uses a particularly strict interpretation in the interest of keeping OSM "cleaner than clean" from a copyright point of view. Please, please, please. Collect the information, link to the license, summarize the license problem areas, and then start a discussion on legal-talk. Just saying, "yeah, we're cool" without backup is risky. The proliferation of homegrown licenses at municipalities is making it very difficult to include that data in OSM. The licenses interact with each other like citrus and dairy in a single glass. Fine in isolation, but a complete mess when mixed. Even if the person in charge grants you an "okay for use in OSM", without a written agreement to relicense as CCBYSA, and in future ODbL, risks the need to remove that data later. _______________________________________________ Talk-ca mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-ca
